Blog Profile / Co.Design
| URL : | http://www.fastcodesign.com/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Construction / Architecture | |
| Posts on Regator: | 5645 | |
| Posts / Week: | 38.3 | |
| Archived Since: | July 26, 2010 | |
Blog Post Archive
A Beautiful, Unbreakable French Press Made From A Mason Jar
So long, shattered glass! The Portland Press comes with a lifetime guarantee. You don’t have to be a coffee snob to know that French presses are delicate. Anyone who’s ever so much as picked up one of the java brewers knows that the glass beakers are incredibly, almost uncomfortably, thin. Show More Summary
Infographic: The Signature Cocktails Of Your Favorite Fictional Boozehounds
Ernest Hemingway once said, "A man does not exist until he is drunk." Sometimes, neither do literary characters. Don Draper drinks an Old Fashioned because he’s a man. Rocky Balboa drank his protein shakes--five raw eggs--for strength. Show More Summary
Newsweek 2.0: A New Model For Online Magazines
Designed by Huge, the revamped, digital-only Newsweek aims to bring print mag qualities like cohesion and curation to the web. When it was announced last fall that Newsweek, after nearly 80 years as a weekly news magazine, would ditch...Show More Summary
Experimental Lighting That Balances Like a See-Saw
Fort Standard’s debut lighting series put some experiments with physics to good use. It’s either the most grown up hanging mobile, or the most secretly playful piece of high end design. The Counterweight Mobile light mixes polished white...Show More Summary
This Pouch Ensures You Pay Attention To Your Date, Not Your Phone
Blokket blocks cell signals and keeps your phone screen hidden from view. Forget body language--the most effective, ultra-modern way to show someone that you’re into them, you respect them, or you genuinely enjoy their company is to keep your darn hands off your darn phone when you’re hanging out. Show More Summary
Photorealistic Mug Shots That Are Woven On A Loom
Joanne Arnett re-creates those guilt-filled moments experienced by professional criminals and celebrities alike. There is no great shortage of mug shots on the Internet. Criminal photos of 19th-century bank robbers are blogged alongside those of contemporary celebrities, proving that our interest in the guilty is wholly pervasive. Show More Summary
Infographic: An Interactive Guide To The Recurring Jokes On “Arrested Development”
Season 4 is just around the corner! Here’s a refresher on all the cleverness that came before. This week marks the final countdown, so to speak, for die-hard Arrested Development fans, because on May 26th, Netflix will release the long-anticipated fourth season of the cult comedy show. Show More Summary
The 3 Best Features Of Flickr’s Massive Redesign
Flickr’s site-wide overhaul puts the emphasis back on the images. The response to Yahoo’s acquisition of Tumblr, generally speaking, has been one of suspicion. And considering Yahoo’s track record on these sorts of things, rightly so. Show More Summary
Boring Stock Photos Get “Game Of Thrones” Makeovers
Feeling uninspired by stock photography? Unleash the direwolves. I’ve spent too many hours in Shutterstock, mining for gold amongst…let’s just call them organic substances far less valuable than gold. But while most of us lament theShow More Summary
Classic Bauhaus Designs, Reimagined In Food
A pair of food stylists imagine what the Bauhaus cuisine would have looked like. The Bauhaus was active for a scant 14 years--from 1919 to its closing in 1933--but its influence continues to haunt design. An incubator for interdisciplinary...Show More Summary
Not Another Bill: A Service That Delivers Curated Packages To Your Doorstep
Wouldn’t it be nice to receive a package of surprise goodies every month, instead of a stack of bills? We’re entering a brand new era of snail mail. Personal correspondence is still largely digital, but people are pining for that visceral thrill of finding a surprise waiting for them at home--enough that they’re willing to pay for the pleasure. Show More Summary
An App That Maps The Entire Universe Of Beer
What if you knew whether you’d like a beer before you even took the first sip? This incredible visualization can make that possible. One night, Kevin Jamieson sat at a bar and drank a beer that was particularly delicious. Maybe he even had a few or a few too many, because the next day, he couldn’t remember the beer’s name. Show More Summary
A Furniture Collection Made Entirely By Wind Power
Merel Karhof has a knack for harnessing breezes and turning them into fun, sustainable goods we can use. Merel Karhof has been using the breeze as muse for years, finding new ways to spin airflow into creative gold. Most notable, perhaps,...Show More Summary
Watch: Rich Brilliant Willing Talk About Their Hands-On Design Process
The trio behind the Brooklyn-based design-and-manufacturing studio talk shop and share their approach to making. Rich Brilliant Willing was formed in 2007 with the goal of uniting the oft disparate worlds of design and manufacturing from a fully equipped, Brooklyn-based studio and workshop. Show More Summary
Are These Dancing Figures The Future Of Digital Fabrication?
Architect Marc Fornes doesn’t build buildings, he codes them. Now he’s testing his digital fabrication techniques with a series of dancing aluminum sculptures. There seems to be no shortage to experiments with fresh building materials...Show More Summary
Watch: The Beastie Boys’ Album Covers, Explained By The Artists Who Made Them
This month, Juxtapoz Magazine dedicates an entire issue to the album art of one of rap’s greatest trios. The cover for the Beastie Boys’ debut album, License To Ill, perfectly encapsulated the group’s subversive M.O. It showed a sleek...Show More Summary
Kickstarting: An App That Turns Your Digital Photos Into Hyperactive Music Videos
Eternal Light lets you actually do something with all those snapshots you’ve amassed over the years. The great thing about having good cameras on our smartphones isn’t necessarily that we can take pictures whenever the inspiration strikes. Show More Summary
A Photographer Offers Another Way To Burn Off Calories
How do you overcome fast-food temptation? Set that burger ablaze, says Henry Hargreaves. Some say that slapping calorie counts on menus effectively helps consumers decide whether to have fries with that. Others (guess who) argue that...Show More Summary
5 Ways Big Companies Can Pivot Like Lean Startups
By lowering the barriers to breakthrough ideas and matching them to underserved needs, large companies can reclaim their reputation for innovation. Innovation. You’ve either got it or you haven’t. Right now, Procter and Gamble hasn’t. Show More Summary
A High-Design Chair That Pops Up Like A Camping Tent
Benjamin Hubert riffed off camping gear to create the Membrane chair for Classicon. The point of the great outdoors is to leave behind the unwieldy trappings of domestic life--cushy sofas and immobile loungers--for some serious bonding with nature’s bounty. Show More Summary